Nov 16, 2018
Getting Lost: A Poetry Essay for The Lonely Crowd
Getting Lost: A Poetry Essay for The Lonely Crowd. Woodland, women's bodies, wings and witchcraft are all in the mix in my essay about four new poems in Issue Ten of The Lonely Crowd @TheLonelyPress
‘To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we are transformed. It is no accident that in Shakespeare’s comedies, people go into the greenwood to grow, learn and change. It is where you travel to find yourself, paradoxically, by getting lost.’
Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees (Hugo Hamilton, 2007)
At poetry workshops, when a writer has finished reading their work…
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